(FB 1546190720 Timestamp) (Baltimore was one of the capital cities of the continent. So was Detroit. So was Hartford. So was New Haven. What did they fail to do? Technical Universities, Financial Centers, Keep the left out of government, and price ‘minorities’ out of the urban center and into ‘the ring’ as do european countries. NYC survives because of the financial sector or it would be baltimore, hartford, new haven. Why? Look at how few people (families) pay the taxes that pay for NYC? There is a ‘village’ in NYC that pays for it all. Everyone else is just a member of the plantation. And london is worse now. )
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546365506 Timestamp) —“How did we go from 500 cc to 1500 cc brains? 2 million years of iterative genocide.”– Simon Ström
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546303804 Timestamp) um. …. Shakespeare’s English is early-modern English, not old English (Anglo-Saxon) or Middle English; The difference between early modern and modern english is (a) pronunciation was pretty gaelic-sounding, and (b) quite a few words in early modern have fallen out of use. Middle English ( 1100-1500) The Lord governeth me, and no thing schal faile to me. In the place of posture there he hath set me. He nurschide me on the water of refreischyng. Early Modern English (King James Bible, 1611) The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green postures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. Major historical Periods of the English Language 1 – Old English AD 449- AD 1066 2 – Middle English 1066-1509 3 – Early Modern English 1509-1755 4 – Present Day English 1755-present Old English Her for se here of East Englum ofer Humbremuþan to Eoforwicceastre on Norþhymbre, ond þær wæs micel ungeþuærnes þære þeode betweox him selfum, ond hie hæfdun hiera cyning aworpenne Osbryht, ond ungecyndne cyning underfengon Ãllan; ond hie late on geare to þam gecirdon þæt hie wiþ þone here winnende wærun, ond hie þeah micle fierd gegadrodon, ond þone here sohton æt Eoforwicceastre, ond on þa ceastre bræcon, ond hie sume inne wurdon, ond þær was ungemetlic wæl geslægen Norþanhymbra, sume binnan, sume butan; ond þa cyningas begen ofslægene, ond sio laf wiþ þone here friþ nam. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 867) Middle English Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (so priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of engelond to caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. (Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, c. 1400) Early Modern English To be, or not to be, that is the Question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes That Flesh is heyre too? ‘Tis a consummation Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe, To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub, For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come, When we haue shuffel’d off this mortall coile, Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect That makes Calamity of so long life (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, c. 1600, First Folio)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546365506 Timestamp) —“How did we go from 500 cc to 1500 cc brains? 2 million years of iterative genocide.”– Simon Ström
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546303804 Timestamp) um. …. Shakespeare’s English is early-modern English, not old English (Anglo-Saxon) or Middle English; The difference between early modern and modern english is (a) pronunciation was pretty gaelic-sounding, and (b) quite a few words in early modern have fallen out of use. Middle English ( 1100-1500) The Lord governeth me, and no thing schal faile to me. In the place of posture there he hath set me. He nurschide me on the water of refreischyng. Early Modern English (King James Bible, 1611) The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green postures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. Major historical Periods of the English Language 1 – Old English AD 449- AD 1066 2 – Middle English 1066-1509 3 – Early Modern English 1509-1755 4 – Present Day English 1755-present Old English Her for se here of East Englum ofer Humbremuþan to Eoforwicceastre on Norþhymbre, ond þær wæs micel ungeþuærnes þære þeode betweox him selfum, ond hie hæfdun hiera cyning aworpenne Osbryht, ond ungecyndne cyning underfengon Ãllan; ond hie late on geare to þam gecirdon þæt hie wiþ þone here winnende wærun, ond hie þeah micle fierd gegadrodon, ond þone here sohton æt Eoforwicceastre, ond on þa ceastre bræcon, ond hie sume inne wurdon, ond þær was ungemetlic wæl geslægen Norþanhymbra, sume binnan, sume butan; ond þa cyningas begen ofslægene, ond sio laf wiþ þone here friþ nam. (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, A.D. 867) Middle English Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye (so priketh hem nature in hir corages); Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially from every shires ende Of engelond to caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke. (Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, c. 1400) Early Modern English To be, or not to be, that is the Question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the minde to suffer The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end The Heart-ake, and the thousand Naturall shockes That Flesh is heyre too? ‘Tis a consummation Deuoutly to be wish’d. To dye to sleepe, To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there’s the rub, For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come, When we haue shuffel’d off this mortall coile, Must giue vs pawse. There’s the respect That makes Calamity of so long life (William Shakespeare, Hamlet, c. 1600, First Folio)
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546445205 Timestamp) Fascinating how the depression affected families differently. My mother’s (French) lived in a large custom built home on a huge farm, with typical parlor, living room, dining, kitchen, porches, and four or five bedrooms. But they were devastated by the depression, and despite the number of lawyers and professors on my mother’s side I’m not sure they’ve yet recovered. On my father’s side they were business owners and during the depression bought vast tracks of land at rock bottom prices – and frankly lived off the incremental sale of that land as well as their inheritances – until my father’s generation they kept the original investments and did not draw upon them. This is how intergenerational families are created – demand for behavior driven by demand for inheritance of not only wealth but opportunity and prestige. However, through the excessive inflation that wealth (which was rather absurd at the in the early 20th century) it was obvious to my by the 80’s that it is nearly impossible to hold wealth between generations at these rates of inflation, unless it is in land (really: proximity to discounted opportunity costs) that has some chance of appreciating. That said my father’s people are businesspeople independent of land and soldiers and a few politicians, while my mother’s people are business people dependent upon land, with politicians, and lawyers, and academics. What has happened to both sides of the family is that they have been taxed and conquered through immigration, while the only people that profit from taxation and immigration are the financial sector and the state.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546445205 Timestamp) Fascinating how the depression affected families differently. My mother’s (French) lived in a large custom built home on a huge farm, with typical parlor, living room, dining, kitchen, porches, and four or five bedrooms. But they were devastated by the depression, and despite the number of lawyers and professors on my mother’s side I’m not sure they’ve yet recovered. On my father’s side they were business owners and during the depression bought vast tracks of land at rock bottom prices – and frankly lived off the incremental sale of that land as well as their inheritances – until my father’s generation they kept the original investments and did not draw upon them. This is how intergenerational families are created – demand for behavior driven by demand for inheritance of not only wealth but opportunity and prestige. However, through the excessive inflation that wealth (which was rather absurd at the in the early 20th century) it was obvious to my by the 80’s that it is nearly impossible to hold wealth between generations at these rates of inflation, unless it is in land (really: proximity to discounted opportunity costs) that has some chance of appreciating. That said my father’s people are businesspeople independent of land and soldiers and a few politicians, while my mother’s people are business people dependent upon land, with politicians, and lawyers, and academics. What has happened to both sides of the family is that they have been taxed and conquered through immigration, while the only people that profit from taxation and immigration are the financial sector and the state.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546648447 Timestamp) REGARDING TALEB’S IDENTITY CRISIS Druz, Jew, Syrian, Jordanian, Palestinian, … they’re ALMOST as close to each other as northern europeans are to each other. Look: … NORTH … South Caucasus, Anatolian, Iranian (North West Asians) … <-overlap with-> … CENTER … Mesopotamians, Levantines (South west eurasians) … <-overlap with-> … SOUTH … North Semites, South Semites ( middle easterns: … horn of africa, yemen, red sea, arabian peninsula) Ashkenazi went thru a bottleneck after selecting for literacy, and they seem to have saved their rabbis first, every time they were punished for usury and conspiracy with the state against the people, and they consistently pushed reproduction up thru the rabbis – and that’s all it took. Adaptation may be slow but expression of bottlenecks (eugenics) is not. Six generations and miracles can happen.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546648447 Timestamp) REGARDING TALEB’S IDENTITY CRISIS Druz, Jew, Syrian, Jordanian, Palestinian, … they’re ALMOST as close to each other as northern europeans are to each other. Look: … NORTH … South Caucasus, Anatolian, Iranian (North West Asians) … <-overlap with-> … CENTER … Mesopotamians, Levantines (South west eurasians) … <-overlap with-> … SOUTH … North Semites, South Semites ( middle easterns: … horn of africa, yemen, red sea, arabian peninsula) Ashkenazi went thru a bottleneck after selecting for literacy, and they seem to have saved their rabbis first, every time they were punished for usury and conspiracy with the state against the people, and they consistently pushed reproduction up thru the rabbis – and that’s all it took. Adaptation may be slow but expression of bottlenecks (eugenics) is not. Six generations and miracles can happen.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1546790168 Timestamp) SIMPLE ANSWERS DEPARTMENT —“The Spanish empire was centrally run. The British was based on free enterprise.”—Richard Hall The british empire was based upon rule of law, which results in free enterprise.